The second edition of New York Insurance Law, now under the Appleman brand, New Appleman New York Insurance Law, Second Edition maintains four volumes, but the chapters have been reorganized to follow the practice of insurance law according to the work flow of insurance attorneys. The treatise is broken into four parts: Overview, Principles and Practice, Types of Insurance Coverages, and Structure and Regulation of Insurance Industry. Introductory scope sections have been added at the beginning of each chapter to give users a quick overview of each chapter. Descriptive section headings have been added for each chapter which makes it easy to scan chapters and find essential information. The content of each chapter is now organized to quickly get inexperienced and experienced users alike to the correct information. The second edition is also integrated with the Lexis electronic database providing search queries and strategies to find the most current New York and federal cases on-point. The eBook version of this title features links to Lexis Advance for further legal research options.

Authors / Contributors

Wolcott B. Dunham

Thomas M. Kelly

Nicholas F. Potter

Alexander R. Cochran

Wolcott B. Dunham

Wolcott B. Dunham, Jr., former General Editor and Contributing Author, has been recognized as the preeminent insurance industry lawyer in New York. His practice included mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, demutualizations, workouts and insolvencies, reinsurance, the convergence of insurance and banking, regulatory matters and general corporate counseling. He was a partner in Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and served as the global Co-Chair of the firm's Financial Institutions Group. In May 2007, Mr. Dunham was appointed by the Governor as a member of the New York State Commission to Modernize the Regulation of Financial Services. He was the Executive Director of the Heimann Commission (the New York State Executive Advisory Commission on Insurance Industry Regulatory Reform) in 1982. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and is a former Chair of the Committee on Insurance Law of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a former Chair of the Committee on Insurance Law of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law. He is a Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel. Mr. Dunham has spoken and written on many insurance-related topics. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Thomas M. Kelly

Thomas M. Kelly is a corporate partner and Chair for the Americas of Debevoise & Plimpton's Insurance Industry Group and has represented insurance companies in a broad range of capital markets and M&A transactions. He has also acted as company counsel on several of the major U.S. life insurer demutualizations. Mr. Kelly is chair of the Insurance Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association and is chair of the Corporate Section of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel.

Alexander R. Cochran

Alexander R. Cochran is a corporate partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and is a member of the firm's Financial Institutions Group. He focuses on corporate transactions in the insurance industry, including mergers and acquisitions, financings and pension risk transfer transactions. He is a frequent author and speaker on legal developments affecting the insurance industry.